...There are a few possible origins for the word rice. One is the Sanskrit vrīhi, which appears in the Vedas, the oldest Indian classics, and all European words meaning rice, including Arabic uruz and Latin oryza, are said to be of the same lineage. It is also thought that the Japanese word uruchi may have the same origin, and some believe that it is a corrupted version of the sine of urushi-ne, which was used in Kyushu and Shikoku. *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "vrīhi" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…イネの語源については二,三の系譜が指摘されている。その一つは,インド最古の古典とされるベーダに現れるサンスクリットのブリーヒvrīhiで,アラビア語のウルズ,ラテン語のオリザをはじめとして,ヨーロッパ語のイネを意味する言葉は,すべてこれと同一系譜のものとされている。日本語のウルチもまたこれと語源を等しくするのではないかとされ,九州,四国で用いられていたウルシネのシネが転訛してイネとなったとする見方もある。… ※「vrīhi」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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